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APPENDIX. 

 Texts. 



1. Nabonidus, "King of the City." 



2. The Babylonians at Zobah. 



3. The Babylonians at Tyre. 



4. The latest date of the reign of Nabonidus. 



1. Nabonidus, "King of the City." 



The following document is preserved in two examples, both 

 of them, apparently, copies of an original which has not yet 

 been found. The variants probably indicate that the copyists 

 were not very careful in reproducing the characters of their 

 oricrinal : — 



o 



(British Museum, S + 769 and S + 734.) 



(1) A-di-'i-ilu abli-su sa Nabu-zer-iddina (var. -id-di-na) 



(2) u Hu-li-(i-)ti assati-su (addition : Iltu Hu-li-tu"^) 



(3) Mar-duk-a mara (var. ma-ra)-su-nu a-na simi ha-ri-is (var. 

 simi(?) ha-ri-su (?), a-na omitted) (4) a-na Su-la-a abli-su sa 

 Zer-ukin id-din (var. i-nam-din) (5) bu-ut (var. bu-ut-ti) 

 si-hi-i u pa-ki-ra-nu (6) sa ina muhhi (var. mu]^-hi) Mar-duk-a 

 el-la-' (var. i-li-mu na-su-u) (7) A-di-'i-ilu Ak-ka-du-u (?) 

 (var. mara-su it-ti-su) (8) na-su-u (var. na-su-u-su). 



(9) ^^'^^ mu-kin-nu Nabu-na'id sa eli ali (var. abil ^'^^''^ sarri . . .) 

 (10) A-kar-'-u Mu-se-zib-Bel (11) abli-su sa Mar-duk-a Zeri-ia 

 (12) abli-su sa Bab-ila^'-a-a (var. Ba-bi-la-a-a) Ken-zeru (13) 

 abli-su sa Ya-di-'i-ilu (var. A-di-'i-ilu) Ee-mut abil (var. abli-su 

 sa) Mar-duk-a (14) u ^^^^"^ tup-sarru Nabu-zer-ikisa (-sa) abli- 

 su sa Pte-mut Hu-us-si-ti sa Mu-sal-lim-*^ Maruduk (15) warab 

 Sabati umu sisseru sattu samattu (16) Nabu-kudurri-usur 

 sar Babili'''. 



Translation. 



Adi'i-ilu, son of Nabu-zer-iddina, and Huliti, his wife,* have 

 givent Marduk'a, their son, for the price agreed upon, to Sula, 

 son of Zer-ukin. Liability to refusal and annulment, which 

 were upon Marduk'a, exist not — Adi'i-ilu and the Akkadian 

 have taken (it).J 



^ Addition, "the divine Hulitu™" t Var. "will give." 



X The probable translation of the variants ilimu nam Adi'i-ilu mdra-su 

 itti-su naSA-su is : " It exists not — it is taken away. Adi'i-llu (and) hia 

 son with him have taken it away." 



